Tampa Republic

Tampa tennis player Diego Pernalete finished 6,458th in February in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association.

They started February ranked 6,111th.

By the end of the month they’d earned 72 points across singles and doubles tournaments.

Players earn points per round in tournaments, winning higher points the further into a tournament they advance.

Jarett Cascino of New York Tennis Magazine says tennis is one of the most competitive youth sports.

“There is always someone better than you on any given day, even if you are the number one player in the world!” he said.

Rankings are released weekly.

Name	Starting Rank	Ending Rank	Total Points at end of February
Jack Satterfield	301	277	2,056
Hunter Nussbaum	N/A	349	1,710
Alex Lloyd	1,119	1,191	626
Nikith Surapaneni	1,329	1,460	532
Sebastian Johnson	2,213	2,207	362
Valentino Laurato	2,045	2,334	341
Aidan Gionis	2,269	2,395	331
Robert Herrion	2,484	2,453	326
Justin Roberts	2,642	2,693	290
Lerato Brickhouse	2,571	2,852	270
Sebastian Fuentes	4,077	4,305	147
Will Bomstein	4,330	4,548	133
Rajveer Dhillon	5,478	5,242	106
Tommaso Caucchioli	5,994	6,055	82
Pugal Venthan Vijayakumar	5,959	6,296	76
Diego Pernalete	6,111	6,458	72
Jayden Allee	6,806	7,178	60
Liam Houzego	7,557	7,934	47
Ignacio Salazar Guzman	9,697	8,152	45
Amin Sukni	8,057	8,458	40
Nikesh Reddy Bomma	9,663	8,839	37
Xavier Castellano	7,534	8,948	36
Godwin Karkour	8,715	9,189	33
Jake Lima	9,548	9,390	31
Rohan Vemuri	9,027	9,571	30
Jonathan Cheng	9,361	9,848	30
Marko Johannson	N/A	9,912	29